Web 2.OOOOH!
STOP THE FREAKIN’ PRESSES!!!
CNN is reporting that Scarlett Johansson has been personally emailing with Barack Obama about, among other things, the media’s obsession with trivial gossip.
Just take a minute to let that all sink in…
Did they report your graffiti binge? Ask Everyblock.
It’s a pretty understandable urge: You move, and once you’re settled in you want to know everything there is to know about your new block. Were there killings? Were those killings carnal and/or grisly? Is there a sure-sign-of-gentrification-beer-garden opening on the corner? Were there killings (grisly or carnal) AT the beer garden on the corner? [...]
I can’t believe I’m going to suggest this
But, you might want to go pick up a copy of Micro$oft Office Ultimate here ($ = angry sarcasm nerd points). It’s only $60, kindly reduced from its original price: $5423.54. But, like all that comes from Papa Gates, there are two catches:
1. You have to have a .edu address.
2. You may have to be [...]
Too Hot For MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org took a note from Barack Obama’s positive style and requested that all submissions to their Obama in :30 competition be “positive ads about Barack Obama, not attack ads about others.”
But what fun is that?
In flagrant defiance of the rules, Misplaced Planet’s submission is more like an over the top attack on John McCain. They’ve [...]
The networks rule
[Editors Note: Ian wrote this on Thursday. Because I'm slow, and probably because I'm gay, I just got to posting it today, two days after the day he refers to. So let's think of it more as ... a reflection on International Workers Day, yes? ALSO Ian is fantastic and will be posting more offering [...]
An American “Triumph of the Will” with will.i.am as Leni Riefenstahl
Ok, I’m pretty deep in the whole Obamania thing at this point, but I have to admit this video makes me just a little uncomfortable.
And yes, that is Ugly Betty’s own Eric Mabius under all that beard. I think Obama should get to be president based purely on Mabius’ performance as the creepy, naughty Dean [...]
Pay to Play? The Fallacy of Democratic Web Searching
Editor’s Note: Pinko is proud to Welcome Margot as our latest contributor. Margot will be writing on the shady pentagon origins of the internet and other high tech conspiracies. Enjoy.
Google “Druid”. The resulting hits order themselves like the scores of a popularity contest rather than an unbiased search through the labyrinthine halls of the [...]
Serious Business
Bestselling marketing author and entrepreneur Seth Godin had this to say on his blog:
It’s too easy to criticize hope. And in the end, cynicism is a lousy strategy.
Pinko Plagiarama!
With all the He said/She said Plagiarism allegations going around the interweb, we thought we would offer our own take and, thanks to social video editing site Kaltura, let you have a stab at it as well.
Enjoy.
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